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jamieiles

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About jamieiles

Software professional and hardware tinkerer, author of the Oldland and s80x8 CPUs, makes low-level things work.

https://www.jamieiles.com

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    Thunder X2 and X3 has 4 way SMT for general purpose, but yes, more ARM is good :-)

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    Comment #25365177

    Source RPMs are also not publicly published anymore. The source is available in the CentOS git repos, will be interesting to see what happens after CentOS 8 ends.

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    Nuvia | Software + Silicon + Systems | Full-time | REMOTE (US/UK/Canada) | https://nuviainc.com/ Nuvia is building the next generation of data center SoCs based on a custom core AR…

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    Full-time, remote within US, UK Ksplice is a key technology in Oracle's Linux offering and powers our engineered systems and public cloud, patching the Linux kernel, user-space and…

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    Comment #17526927

    There is no pusha in long mode though, you need to push individual regs.

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    Full-time, remote within US, UK, France Ksplice is a key technology in Oracle's Linux offering and powers our engineered systems and public cloud, patching the Linux kernel, user-s…

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    Comment #16792434

    If you do that, then on almost every context switch the new process will resume with a cold cache. In the worst case, if you were to send lots of IPC requests to a privileged proce…

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    Comment #16140408

    RM had a 186 based system, but the reason for 186 is that it's a relatively small delta over the 8086 vs 286!

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    Comment #14689411

    Full-time, remote within US Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the kernel on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're a distributed …

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    Comment #14462228

    Full-time, remote within US Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the kernel on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're a distributed …

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    Comment #12016825

    Full-time, remote within US Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the kernel on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're a distributed …

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    Comment #11815343

    Full-time, remote within US Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the kernel on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're a distributed …

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    Comment #11203360

    Full time, remote within US and UK Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the critical components of a Linux system on the fly with zero downtime and…

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    Comment #10312162

    Full-time, remote within US Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the kernel on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're a distributed …

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    Comment #9996370

    Full-time, remote within US Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the kernel on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're a distributed …

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    Comment #9939480

    Thanks for the feedback. With regards to initial blocks, the advantage of using them on an FPGA design is that it's just the initialization value of the registers in the bitstream …

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    Comment #9938714

    The Terasic DE0-nano ( http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=E... ) is a great board for soft CPU's. It's cheap, has a decent size FPGA and external SDRAM. The…

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    Comment #9744443

    I've been working on a similar project for a couple of years now ( http://jamieiles.github.io/oldland-cpu/ ) and these are very rewarding projects - there's a great mix of hardware…

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    Comment #9639087

    Full-time, remote within US The Ksplice group at Oracle develops exciting technology to patch the Linux kernel whilst it is running, eliminating unplanned downtime for systems runn…

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    Comment #9390070

    The Terasic series are great, especially if you aren't too fussed about peripherals on the board. The DE0-nano has a decent sized FPGA and SDRAM for less than $100. There is also a…

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    I have mostly the same experience as a software engineer playing with FPGA's. I don't buy the argument that Verilog isn't a programming language - there are still plenty of softwar…

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    Full-time, remote within US/Western Europe. The Ksplice group at Oracle develops exciting technology to patch the Linux kernel whilst it is running, eliminating unplanned downtime …